The crisis in the Presbyterian Church

John Thomas Duffield

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!;j|;f^i|ii^|!|;!i;i!iBiii;:);ii|iiii^^ ' \ V f v.L;!^»+.Mier«sl55S'5alI?iU'^\ii.^''Vc.t:l*^:.v)*fe;,s,y:' ^,Zo.'o^ fHhtobsitH!a&t ^1 ^ %.^^ PRINCETON, N. J. ^ .A ,^."X).Presented bpPvQ- 7S'rB.\i^u-as the lish a volume impugning the orthodoxy of the accepted theol- "ogy of the Church, asserting that modern Presbyti-rianism had departed from along line;"the Westminster Standards all the "that it is necessary to overcome that false orthodoxy which '" ;has obtruded itself in the })lace of the AN estminster that" the theology ministry of theof a large proportion of the Presb^'terian churches stands in the way of progress in theology and of true Christian orthodoxy, and there is no other way of obstructadvancing in truth excejtt by removing the errors tliat our path." " This i)olcmic," as the author styles his work, had not for Ijack toits object, as might be sujtiHised, to i)ring the Church orthodoxy according Standards, but for an entirely diller-to the ent—it might l)e said, the very opi)Osite i)Urpose. With com-— mendable frankne.ss he says : "The time has come for the reconstruction of theology, of work."|»olity, of worship and of Christian life ami " He avows that *' elaborate' creeds tlie sin ofsubscription to is great the Lutheran and Reformed dhurehes.

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• Briggs

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• Publié par: les_archives_du_savoir
• Nombre de lectures: 27
• Langue: English

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